Fight Club actor Ed Norton has defended his new film's use of New York's
GROUND ZERO, the site of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.

The Spike Lee directed 25TH HOUR uses the area as its main backdrop, but
Norton insists the movie had to feature the attacks as it was about the Big
Apple.

He says, "Everybody who worked on this film lives in New York and they'd
all say there is a political context to September 11th, but there's also an
emotional context, it's something that happened and it's part of the fabric of
the city
now."

"I think if I'd felt at any time that we were taking the story from the
characters and their crises and turning it into a political comment on those
events I would have been very uncomfortable about that."

He adds, "It seems insane to make a film about loss and consequences of
choices and taking things for granted and to not allow that new emotional
reality into the background would have seemed like a denial."